THE SUBSTITUTE

THE SUBSTITUTE

Genesis 44:33 (NKJV) “Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.” Judah understood the implications of returning without Benjamin. He knew it was an automatic death warrant on his...
THE SUBSTITUTE

INDISPENSABLE

Genesis 44:30 (NKJV) “Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life,” Jacobs life was bound up in the life of Benjamin and this ought not to have been so. It’s understandable that Jacob...
THE SUBSTITUTE

IMPLICIT TRUST

Genesis 44:9 (NKJV) “With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” The brothers were so confident in each other that they were willing to pronounce a verdict of death on whomsoever was caught amongst them to have...
THE SUBSTITUTE

YOUR PLACE VS. YOUR PORTION

Genesis 43:33-34 (NKJV) “And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth…Then he took servings to them from before him, but Benjamin’s serving was five times as much as any of theirs…” Your rank in the line of...
THE SUBSTITUTE

A RIGHT PLACE AND TIME

Genesis 43:30 (NKJV) “Now his heart yearned for his brother; so Joseph made haste and sought somewhere to weep. And he went into his chamber and wept there.” There is a right place and time for everything, and we must have complete control of our entire being so that...